Vice President - Financial Control - Investment Banking

Essential:

- Qualified Accountant - CA, CPA, ACCA, MBA

- Strong academic background - minimum bachelor degree from a reputable institution

Experience

- Experience in month end closure including Balance sheet control and IFRS reporting

- Ability to manage and lead a team and interact with senior staff across multiple jurisdictions in multiple functions

Preferred : 

- Experience of having worked in IB environment

Essential:

- Strong control mindset

- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and understanding their requirements for effective execution

- Ability to lead teams and motivate staff

- Enthusiastic, motivated, self-starter, proactive and a team player.

- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communicator.

- Desire to provide top quality service to internal stakeholders from different areas of the firm /geographies

- Willingness and ability to take ownership of issues and manage through to a successful resolution.

- Eye for detail and exception track record in managing and resolving conflict situations

- Ability to negotiate and influence senior management across the businesses

- Ability to build strong partnerships across the business with excellent stakeholder management

- Analytical and problem solving skills with ability to think outside the box.

- Strong knowledge of financial statement disclosure

Leadership requirements : 

- Judgment - Balances short-term & long term goals, manages ambiguity well, is an astute risk taker, can see things in new and innovative ways and understands the business.

- Influence - Adept at influencing and aligning colleagues to make things happen, builds trusting and collaborative relationships, knows self deeply and creates teams to complement own strengths.

- Execution - Turns strategy into results, measures, manages and delivers performance, always delivers on promises. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to be creative and to - think outside the box.

- Drive - Passionate about making a difference, relentlessly seeks out and overcomes major challenges, has real drive and determination, continuously raises the bar and is emotionally resilient. Proven track record in delivering to tight deadlines under pressure.

- Excellent Communication & Presentation - Excellent people-management and relationship-building skills with ability to operate at most senior levels.

- Process improvement - drives through change and process re-engineering by continuously leaning and streamline processes.

Skills that will help you in the role: Experience of working in SAP financial accounting or investment banking middle-office / back-office accounting and settlement systems